7295983

Musical Tune Playback Apparatus

PublishedNovember 13, 2007
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Technical Abstract

Patent Claims
10 claims

Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.

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1. A musical tune playback apparatus comprising: a musical tune player for playing back at least one musical tune stored in a digital storage medium; a storage for storing musical tune data corresponding to the musical tune that is played back together with relative information; a musical tune data retriever for retrieving desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches at least one retrieval condition; and a musical tune data reproducer for reproducing the retrieved musical tune data, wherein the musical tune data retriever retrieves desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches a user's emotional condition that is detected as the retrieval condition based on user's body temperature and pulse.

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2. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the musical tune data are transmitted from a musical tune data distribution apparatus via a communication line.

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3. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the relative information regarding the musical tune data is transmitted from a musical tune data distribution apparatus via a communication line.

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4. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the musical tune data retriever retrieves desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches a character string that is input as the retrieval condition.

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5. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the musical tune data retriever retrieves desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches a user's emotional condition that is used as the retrieval condition.

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6. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the musical tune data retriever retrieves desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches a time period or a season in which a user's name is input.

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7. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the musical tune data retriever retrieves desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches image data that are input as the retrieval condition.

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8. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the musical tune data retriever retrieves desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches image data that are selected from among a plurality of preset image data as the retrieval condition.

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9. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a display for displaying an image suiting the retrieved musical tune data.

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10. A musical tune playback apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the musical tune data retriever retrieves desired musical tune data related to the relative information, which substantially matches words information representing words of a song, which is recognized based on a user's utterance.

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November 13, 2007

Inventors

Yuji Fujiwara
Karuki Uehara
Shigeki Kawai
Yasuhiko Oba
Yoshihiro Shiiya

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